Befell

Examples

• Who can quit young lives after being long in company with them, and not desire to know what befell them in their after-years? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We believe--Mas'r Davy, me, and all of us--that you are as innocent of everything that has befell her, as the unborn child. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Here an adventure befell me, in which (incredible as it may appear) you are personally interested. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It is my wish, Mr. Ladislaw, to make amends for the deprivation which befell your mother. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• If the worst befell; if she learnt the truth, he would neither stand her reproaches, or the anguish of her altered looks. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I come now to the relation of a misfortune, which about this time befell Mrs. John Dashwood. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Ought a man to give up the woman he loved, just when misfortune befell her? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He promised to communicate with me, when anything befell him; and he slung his bag about him, took his hat and stick, and bade us both 'Good-bye! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is probable, however, that to this fact I owe my life and the remarkable experiences and adventures which befell me during the following ten years. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.

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